Inktober 2022: Bad Dog (Bad Wolf)

Yes. I made it into Doctor Who reference. Found picture of angry dog for reference but that would have been boring and I can’t draw dog or make them look bad. This is reference to Ninth Doctor’s season which Bad Wolf references everywhere. K9 was classic Doctor’s robot dog. I can’t remember if it was on relaunched Doctor Who. Haven’t seen the latest seasons. K9 is really this simple from side. If I didn’t have pictures to check I would have drawn more but it was really this simple.

Inktober 2022: Forget

I took low hanging fruit here. Original plan was to draw Will Smith from Men in Black but didn’t want to do it because Oscars and how that took all media attention from important climate change report. Second idea was to draw Tommy Lee Jones from the same movie. But I got simpler idea.

There was long story arc in Matt Smith’s era of Doctor Who. There was alien race Silence with powers to make people forget ever seeing them. People forgot seeing them as soon as they watched the other way. Don’t remember too much of the story. Matt Smith’s era wasn’t the most memorable. What I remember is character started to draw lines on their body each time they saw Silence. Some Doctor Who fans celebrated story arc by drawing lines on their body one day. Have forgotten if that was annual or one time thing.

This was so minimalistic and simple I wanted to try other Silence related idea. It didn’t work as well as this.

Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor - Year One

Doctor Who is long running British science fiction television series. It tells about time and space traveling alien named The Doctor. Name Doctor Who is joke. We are never told his real name hence Doctor Who. Doctor regenerates into new personality when actor who plays him/her changes. Current one is number thirteen. She is first female Doctor. Series has expanded into other media. This comic concentrates on previous, twelfth Doctor.

Twelfth Doctor is my third favorite Doctor after tenth and fourth. His run was during Steven Moffat’s era. Moffat made Doctor and his companions most important beings in the universe. That ruined Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors’ runs. I liked this Doctor even though his stories had problems. Steven Moffat wrote good episodes before he became show runner. Those episodes were episode long stories. As show runner he made longer story arcs pretty confusing. I was curious when I found whole twelfth Doctor’s comic book run on sale.

This is shows what twelfth Doctor’s run could have been if character was treated as it was treated before Moffat’s era. Year one works like TV series’ season. There is long running story arc with longer season finale and holiday special. Individual stories may or may not have anything to do with season long story arc, We have same characters as in twelfth Doctor’s first season. Clara Oswald is companion. Stories are not connected to tv series. Comic book is its own individual thing not related to show other than the main characters.

This means Doctor is again time traveler who enters into small scale adventures until there is something larger on season finale. Just like first ten Doctors. This comic book catch the essence of Doctor Who better than Moffat’s run on tv series. It is like twelfth Doctor have similar adventures as tenth Doctor. I wish twelfth Doctor’s run on tv was like this.

Main story arc revolves around Hyperions, race of living suns who have turned evil later in their evolution. I haven’t seen every episode (only most of) but I am pretty sure race was created for the comic book. Same applies most of the other antagonists too. There was only one moment which didn’t feel like Doctor Who but it was explained later issues in a way which felt like Doctor Who.

Twelfth Doctor’s year one comics are exactly what I wanted. To be more exact they are what I wanted his run on television to be. Twelfth Doctor treated like first ten Doctors. I like it more than I like his run on television. This comic has three years. I hope last two are as good as the first one. If they are I probably have to check other Doctor Who comics too.